Come wait with me - July onwards

[HavinKittens]

We filled the thread!

@cinderrosie @dmcint @optimistic66 @pollydarton1 @sarahloudobby @soph2512 @confuzzzzzled @unicorn25 @LlamaMamma @Goldie1234

Really sorry if I’ve missed anyone xx

Hi @naggy095 have you tried grapefruit/juice near ov time? I had quite a bit leading up to ovulation and it seemed to do the trick increasing EWCM, although it could have been caused by something else!

@CurlyWurly1991 I haven't heard that before! Definitely will get some soon thank you 😊

@HavinKittens thank you, i do have 2 girls who are 14 & 16 and a 2 year old girl so had a big gap in between, decided to have just one more but unfortunately ended on mmc. I've always trusted frer until now 😪

I would like to say I'd wait but I'd probably end up using IC tomorrow morning again 😅 you know how it is.
If its positive again I think I'll start freaking out incase it's twins and that's why it's showing so early. I have 3 sets of twins in my family. One of which was my cousin twins having twins haha x

Sorry I’m new to this, didn’t realise about filling threads, even contacted support about why my reply wasn’t posting 😂

what I originally wrote:
@DmcinT I've only got BFNs this cycle!

@HavinKittens I think a lot of people struggle about what to say if they didn't struggle to conceive and a pal is - I had a slightly awkward experience at my wedding where a close friend told me all about her fertility struggle, how she really wants kids etc and then proceeded to ask me "so do you think you want kids one day?" And I didn't know whether to tell her I'm 7w pregnant or just say that yes I'd love to have them one day. Chose the second option and then told her by text a few weeks later, but then worried if I was being weird by not fully telling the truth?
Having said that, surely it's common sense - if someone might find some news difficult to give them time 🤦🏻‍♀️

Also, I'm awkwardly at my parents' and they want to spend 24/7 with me and our little girl 😂 (which is obviously lovely), I want to go and get some Boots tests but know they'll try to make an outing out of it and come with me. So Easy@Home it is!

and thank you for making a new thread @HavinKittens

@Vic231 and @PollyDarton1 sounds so confusing, I hope you get (very positive!!) answers soon 🤞🏼

@naggy095 ooh does pomegranate juice help?

@LlamaMamma it's supposed to help blood flow to the womb lining to aid implantation 😁

@HavinKittens thank you for the new thread! I had my first proper period in 25 months so now on CD6 and have been given the all clear to ttc this month 🎉

I'd recommend accupuncture btw, 3 days after my first session got rid of the retained products that had been inside since falling pregnant in January! Then 1 day after my second session I came on my period. I explained my issues to the practitioner and she targeted blood flow / circulation to encourage them out and help me reset. Seems to have worked. Accupuncture can also reportedly help thicken womb lining by improving blood flow, I'm going to keep going every fortnight over summer as I think it really helps me. I'm not normally one to consider alternative medicine but I do recommend this

Oh I’m glad to hear your good news @fleur89
I wouldn’t usually go for alternative therapies either but I have a trust worthy friend who swears by acupuncture. I am tempted to give it a try.

@fleur89 @HavinKittens my gynae recommended it too when I said I want to TTC! Thought it's a strange recommendation for a conventional doctor and also struggle to find time to go as I've got a very clingy toddler... but May give it a go if I don't get a BFP this month

Probably overthinking this but is lifting a 12kg toddler ok? She's starting to have toddler tantrums and is also in the stage of 'pick me up' 'put me down' 'I want to walk down the stairs myself' 'actually changed my mind' so I spend half of my day lifting her and putting her down.

Does that have an impact on conceiving and staying pregnant? Should I avoid? (Because you know they say to avoid lifting things when pregnant)

Oo yes love a little natural remedy to help ! Will be picking up some pomegranate juice 😅 im also taking agnus castus this month. I had a lot of acupuncture to support my IVF and it worked first round 👍🏽might also look into having some more sessions ! There will be an influx in acupuncture appointments thanks to the thread haha

Ive heard so many good things about acupuncture for fertility . I’d written it off because I went about 9w pregnant desperate for a cure to all day nausea … didn’t help but then I suppose it couldn’t have really! Don’t know what I was thinking, I was desperate and that nausea put me off TTC for 10 years 😂
Im getting quite a few cramps, grumpy and fatigued today at 6dpo. Don’t have much of a comparison of what an ordinary cycle is like because I haven’t been tracking or paying much attention until recently. I’ve also probably had quite a few Anovulatory cycles that are being helped with agnus castus at the moment.

@ttcthoughts thank you lovely. I'm ok, think I'm hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. Really appreciating the work distraction at the moment as it allows my mind to focus on other things for a bit. I just can't quite believe it and so awful how quickly things can change x

@ttcthoughts can't quite believe it as in, I had a lovely BFP and now I'm in limbo!

@Vic231 I found it even worse the unknown! But I really do hope everything is ok. Tuesday is such a long time to can you not get a private over the weekend

BFN this morning at 11dpo and feeling extra crushed :(

@Vic231 sorry I missed this. It’s torturous. I was back and forth to the EPU with my first over weeks 4-7ish, as I had a lot of bleeding. I hope yours settles and everything is ok xx

im 7dpo today, my temps are getting higher and my chart looks like a mountain. I think this is my usual pattern although don’t have many charts to compare, so will at least have a ‘baseline’ temps chart if nothing else this month. Holding out to test until Monday earliest (11dpo) but will probably know anyway by then if my temps drop.

@ttcthoughts unfortunately I'm not 6 weeks until Monday, I'm ok to wait though as what will be will be and I'm still bleeding at the moment x

@CurlyWurly1991 thank you lovely 🤍 did they work out what the bleed was in the end? And did it all go ok afterwards? x

@Vic231 no they never did. I remember getting bloods done around 5 weeks and waiting for a call at work… listening to a voicemail from the EPU saying the HCG had in fact doubled. Then at a later stage I went to an early scan there and saw a heartbeat. Tears of relief. My daughter was born full term healthy etc.
However I didn’t have any cramping and it was stop/start red flow without any clots.
I did wonder if I had a CP last month (though didn’t test early so can’t know). That time I had stringy clots, AF cramping and some very early symptoms I’d started with just vanished. AF was only a few days later than expected. From my reading on it these things can just go either way and there’s no way of influencing the outcome, I’m so sorry it’s absolutely awful. TTC is such a rollercoaster isn’t it.

just seen that FF has advised me my test date should be 11 July (18dpo) - didn’t get a bfp til then with my first so that is going to be a long wait. Should know by early next week anyway if AF shows and temps drop etc.

This should be totally fine. I do CrossFit and regularly lift up to and around my body weight, also have a clingy 16 month old (although she's slight at 8.5kg). I continued doing CrossFit and other lifting throughout my previous pregnancy but toned things down to 60-70 percent of my normal weights and stopped flinging weights over my head. While ttc I don't expect any reason to change habits, although I tend to take it a bit easier in the TWW (less plyometrics though, don't change how heavy weights are)

Officially CD1 today, AF has finally started. Bought some grapefruit juice and it tastes disgusting don't think I can stick with it 😖 I've bought agnus castus and selenium supplements so I'm hoping they will help with cervical mucus. I already take a load of other supplements which have helped a lot with my tiredness and mood, I was deficient in iron, vitamin D and folate but they're good now

1DPO here 😅 really glad to know that I O'd on CD15 and keeping everything crossed.. we DTD CD10,11,12,13 so hoping for slow but strong and healthy girl sperm haha

@fleur89 thank you so much for the super detailed response. Just keeping everything crossed for now and trying to get out of my irrational depressed state brought on my a BFN on 11dpo 😅